The Power of the Paedos - another high profile case hits the 'never happened' wall?

[Jan Klimkowski]

So, after the Jimmy "Yorkshire Ripper" Savile diversionary trail was laid, today the Prime Minister plays the Politically Correct card, and warns of a "witchhunt against gays".

Elite power structures are clearly deeply concerned.

David Cameron has warned that accusations of paedophilia against senior Conservative politicians risk creating a witch-hunt, particularly against gay people.

The prime minister made his comments after being confronted on daytime television with a piece of paper listing names circulating on the internet of Tory politicians possibly involved in child sex abuse allegations. It was accidentally briefly flashed on air.

Speaking on ITV1's This Morning, Cameron appealed to anybody with information to contact the police but raised concerns over the internet speculation about who may be embroiled in the scandal, dating back to the 1970s and 1980s.

"I've heard all sorts of names bandied around and what then tends to happen is everyone sits around and speculates about people, some of whom are alive, some of whom are dead," he told This Morning.

"I do think it's very important that anyone who's got any information about any paedophile, no matter how high up in the country or whether they are alive or dead, go to the police."

The presenter, Phillip Schofield, passed Cameron a piece of paper listing names he had gathered from the internet, telling Cameron: "You know the names on that piece of paper, will you be speaking to these people?"

Cameron replied: "There is a danger if we are not careful that this can turn into a sort of witch-hunt, particularly about people who are gay, and I'm worried about the sort of thing you are doing right now, taking a list of names off the internet."

He said the allegations were "extremely serious" and the government had "moved quickly to try to get to the bottom of what they are".

Source.

[Jan Klimkowski]

Location of Haut de la Garenne

In case anyone is interested:

Latitude: 49°12'7.12"N

Longitude: 2° 1'36.52"W

Which suggests?

[Magda Hassan]

A US investigative journalist has been completely barred from visiting the UK by the UK Border Agency headed by Home Secretary Theresa May after it was discovered the reporter was investigating the existence of a very high-level paedophile ring centred around UK children's homes.
The journalist - Leah McGrath Goodman - has been excluded from the UK for over a year now with no sign Ms May is willing to change her mind.
Ms Goodman's blog can be seen here:

leahmcgrathgoodman.com

Why on earth has the Home Secretary agreed to this bizarre and unprecedented exclusion of an independent journalist who previously had a UK Tier-1 visa?
Is it because Ms May is afraid an independent journalist from outside the UK media establishment might be more likely to shine a light on fellow senior Tory Party members' involvement in the growing child abuse scandal?
Over to you Theresa.

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Here's a petition on Change.org, urging the UK government to restore Ms Goodman's UK Tier-1 visa:

Restore the visa of banned journalist Leah McGrath Goodman

http://tompride.wordpress.com/2012/11/07...om-the-uk/

Part I: How To Harass A Journalist

My close friends Jonathan and Vahni flew from London to Jersey this winter to oversee the packing of my things, mostly personal belongings and papers, after the Jersey authorities flagged me for removal at the UK border following my research into the Haut de la Garenne scandal.
These things also included fancy dress shoes, which were of apparent interest to the authorities.
The boxes arrived in the U.S. many weeks later, slashed open by X-Acto knives and in some cases (such as the box pictured below) ripped open by human hands. The boxes arrived with a form stating that a "contaminant" was found inside, but it did not say what that contaminant was. Frankly, it'd be nice to know.
Below, a transcript between Vahni and the United Parcel Service, which was entrusted with my packages, hinting that the possibility of poisonous UK-Jersey soil on my dress shoes had established grounds for a lengthy search of my belongings. All of which makes one wonder why we are allowed to walk off planes in street shoes after taking international flights?
Based on the fact all the boxes were opened and the shipment arrived weeks late, we can only deduce someone had a very strong interest in going through my stuff.

FEBRUARY 2012
Initial Question: Receiver [Leah McGrath Goodman] has just told me that ALL packages opened/damaged. Things actually spilling out of them. They were just left at side door without knocking. They were delivered after the promised delivery date.
UPS Sammy A.: Hi, this is Sammy A.. I'll be happy to assist you!
Vahni: As you can see not happy!
UPS Sammy A.: I need to connect you with a representative who can track your international package. Can I connect you now?
Vahni: yes please
UPS Sammy A. has disconnected.
UPS Ursula P.: Hi, this is Ursula P.. I'll be happy to assist you.
Vahni: can you see my prior chat? Very unhappy with the condition of shipment.
UPS Ursula P.: Yes, I can see the prior chat. Just a moment while I review your tracking information.
Vahni: there are 7 packages in that shipment. ALL were opened and not reclosed securely.
Vahni: And were left at side door without knocking to see if anyone was there to receive them.
UPS Ursula P.: Please give me a couple of minutes to check what happen with your packages and i will also find out about the delivery. Vahni: We'll be checking carefully through the items to see if anything is damaged or missing.
Vahni: if so, what is the procedure for filing a claim?
UPS Ursula P.: I understand that you need to know about this packages. I would need a couple of minutes to find all the information for this packages. Would that be okay with you?
Vahni: Yes. Basically I need to know why they arrived in such bad condition
UPS Ursula P.: Thanks, Just give me a moment.
UPS Ursula P.: Thanks for your patience. I review all the information of this tracking number in the system. The system shows that your package was held by the U.S. Customs Agency. The USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) required the package to be cleaned and disinfected the 11 pairs of shoes. Soil from another countries is not allowed to enter the USA. the customs inspector cleaned and disinfected the shoes. Then the package was back to UPS for delivery.
Vahni: Yes. but all the shoes were in one box. All the boxes were opened, and not reclosed properly.
Vahni: Things were poking out of them.
Vahni: Why?


UPS Ursula P.: I am sorry.
http://leahmcgrathgoodman.com/2012/07/18...ournalist/

[Jan Klimkowski]

Today's diversionary target is the BBC, who appear to have well and truly fucked up, by not performing the journalistic due diligence undertaken by other media organisations such as Channel 4.

First, Newsnight dropped a film containing victim testimony of Jimmy Savile's child abuse.

Then, perhaps anxious to make amends, Newsnight broadcast a film which McAlpine claims implicitly identified him as the "high ranking Tory paedophile" accuased by a particular victim, Steve Messham.

However, Newsnight didn't contact McAlpine for a right of reply prior to broadcast because he was not named in the film

Lord McAlpine given no right of reply on Newsnight film about abuse claims

Newsnight chose not to contact peer ahead of film that appears to have wrongly accused a 'leading politician of Thatcher years'

Dan Sabbagh

guardian.co.uk, Friday 9 November 2012 17.27 GMT

Newsnight chose not to contact Lord McAlpine ahead of broadcasting a film that appears to have wrongly accused a "leading politician of the Thatcher years" widely understood to be the former Conservative party treasurer of being involved in the sexual abuse of a former child resident of a care home in North Wales.

Executives and journalists involved with the BBC2 programme, fronted by Jeremy Paxman and Kirsty Wark, concluded that there was no need to contact the peer before broadcasting the anonymised accusations on Friday last week because Newsnight had no intention of naming him, according to BBC sources.

Had Newsnight done so, they might have heard Lord McAlpine's denials. Another journalist, Michael Crick, from Channel 4 News, spoke to the peer twice on Friday 2 November and was told that McAlpine had only once been to Wrexham, the town where the abuse was alleged to have taken place.

The Newsnight film, broadcast that evening, was based on an interview with Steve Messham, a victim of sexual abuse in care homes in North Wales in the 1970s. Newsnight chose not to name the politician but Gavin Esler introduced the programme by saying "this man says a leading Conservative from the time was one of his abusers".

The name of Lord McAlpine, who now lives in Italy, swiftly began circulating on the internet.

Shortly after, Messham made a statement of apology, saying there was a case of mistaken identity: "I want to offer my sincere and humble apologies to him and his family. After seeing a picture in the past hour of the individual concerned, this not the person I identified by photograph presented to me by the police in the early 1990s, who told me the man in the photograph was Lord McAlpine."

This morning McAlpine finally broke his long silence to say that reports linking him to North Wales child abuse are "wholly false and seriously defamatory" and to also say that he had only been to Wrexham on one occasion.

Giving those criticised a right of reply is a staple of journalism and required by broadcasting regulations. Ofcom's broadcasting code, which regulates the BBC when it comes to fairness and privacy, says that if a programme "alleges wrongdoing or incompetence or makes other significant allegations [against an individual], those concerned should normally be given an appropriate and timely opportunity to respond".

Now the very rich McAlpine is threatening to sue:

The BBC and several dozen Twitter users face the prospect of legal action after Lord McAlpine indicated that he could sue for libel over what he described as "wholly false and seriously defamatory" reports linking him to north Wales child abuse allegations.

The Conservative peer issued a statement on Friday after days of frenzied speculation in the wake of a BBC Newsnight report last Friday.

McAlpine has reportedly instructed Sir Edward Garnier QC, the Conservative MP and former solicitor general, to act on his behalf in any potential libel claim.

Actually, the story is more complicated.

The victim, Steve Messham, has apologised to McAlpine, but his apology contains the following very interesting information:

Mr Messham offered "sincere and humble apologies" to the peer and his family.

In a statement on Friday evening, Mr Messham said: "After seeing a picture in the past hour of the individual concerned, this [is] not the person I identified by photograph presented to me by the police in the early 1990s, who told me the man in the photograph was Lord McAlpine."

So, at face value, we have a journalistic failure by the BBC in not showing Steve Messham a photo of McAlpine. However, we also have the mystery of whose photograph Messham was shown in the early 1990s by the police.

We also have the fact that it was The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph who named McAlpine as innocent of the charges of child abuse in this morning's editions.

Later in the day, McAlpine and his lawyers came out fighting.

Once again, BBC Newsnight did not name McAlpine. But the BBC is now the target of mass condemnation.

Of course there are many of us who have seen evidence suggesting the high ranking Thatcher minister involved in the paedophile ring was someone else altogether.

[Magda Hassan]

I have to wonder what the resident MI5 spook was doing apart from stamping the files of any one with a progressive bent with a Christmas tree. Did all of this simply escape their attention....?

[Magda Hassan]

Andrea Davison, Savile, SERCO and Child Abuse, Covert Arms Shipments and Government Fraud

Details have immerged from Court Documents and colleagues about ex spy Andrea Davison, who fled the UK in July 2012 after years of persecution by the British Authorities.Continuing the persecution DC Robinson of the Derby Police recently told Andrea Davison's stalker, internet troll Gordon Bowden, where she was. The Derby Police told him she living in Argentina and was not, as widely speculated, in the Ecuador Embassy with Julian Assange.
Internet troll of note and police informer Gordon Bowen of DerbyAndrea was well known in Parliament and in the Media as a superlative investigator into covert arms deals, financial corruption and paedophilia in the Police and the Government. She rose to notoriety during the 90's when she was at the forefront of exposing the Conservative Government's secret and illegal arms deals to Iraq. Working with the strange and enigmatic Spy Frank Machon she was given thousands of documents to prove the covert supply line and sent on a mission to expose to the Labour party that the Conservative Government was selling arms to Iraq and Iran.

Spy, or ex-Spy? Agent Andrea Davison pictured on camping trip.

During the first Gulf war Andrea had been dropped behind enemy lines on other secret missions. The flights went from RAF Valley air base in Anglesey North Wales which is close to her home and now has a famous Airman stationed Prince William. She and her group used SAS bases in Iraq without their knowledge and went deep into Iraq to take out traitors working for the Iraqis and to meet up with their own agents. During these missions her Thyroid was damaged by coming into contact with the Chemical and Biological weapons deployed on the Iraqi front lines. Damage to the Thyroid effects every cell in the Body and is a creeping disease which, without medication, slowly debilitates and then kills.Around this period Andrea also found time to work tirelessly to expose pedophiles in the the Police and in the Government such as Peter Morrison and Tory Derek Laud. Both were close friends of Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, a close friend of Jimmy Savile who recently was exposed as a pedophile. She started to work with the then shadow Home Secretary Tony Blair who tried to get the then Home Secretary Kenneth Clark to take action against the Police. But Clark who years later as Justice Secretary would make sure Andrea was prevented from having a fair trial refused to help and instead protected the paedophiles in his Government and in the Police.Andrea and journalist Pete Sawyer continued the exposure through Scallywag magazine who's founder Angus Wilson and editor of its successor, Spiked, died mysteriously in Cyprus in 1994. Scallywag also exposed that MI5 took foreign diplomats and important people to the North Wales homes and secretly filmed them abusing and torturing boys to use the tapes for blackmail. This is a classic Intelligence modus operandi with regard to child abuse by the famous and influential especially politicians that they want to control.. This all linked covert arms deals and child abuse.In Interviews victims named a number of police officers including DC Stephen Winnard of Derby Fraud Squad who later arrested Andrea in 2010, and senior figures and celebrities including Jimmy Saville, Lord McAlpine, Derek Laud and Peter Morrison. The victims said Jimmy Savile came to the collect them in his Rolls Royce. These interviews and other evidence were kept by Andrea. Jimmy Savile routinely used his paedophile connections in the police to silence his victms and critics. An expensive onyx table lighter was inscribed: "To Jimmy Savile from his friends at the Fraud Squad".In 1990 the Tory Government were forced to order a report into the abuse and Mr Jillings from Derbyshire Social Services was ordered to make a full report into the abuse in Children's Homes. But the Government refused to publish the report because it dammed the Police and implicated Government ministers and senior Torys…Read more at: [URL="http://google-law.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/andrea-davison-jimmy-savile-serco-and.html"]Justice Denied

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[Magda Hassan]

A quick look at Lord McAlpine's past and let's see if he might have had any special protection from the state?

How MI6 pushed Britain to join Europe

Paul Lashmar and James Oliver, Sunday Telegraph, 27 April 1997, page 10A secretly-funded Foreign Office unit used public money to mount a covert propaganda operation aimed at ensuring Britain joined the European Community. Paul Lashmar and James Oliver investigate
IN LATE 1972, Alistair McAlpine, later Lord McAlpine, was recruited as treasurer for a pro-European lobby organisation called the European League for Economic Co-operation. It was only much later that he discovered the reason for his appointment. A "branch of the security services, called, I believe, something like the IDA", had been financing breakfasts and lunches for this and other bodies, he later wrote.
Now, the full extent of the involvement by the MI6-linked Information Research Department of the Foreign Office in supporting Britain's joining the European Economic Community can be revealed.
For nearly two years, IRD had been funding invitation-only meetings between senior media figures and pro-European politicians. diplomats and businessmen. These were regular, expensive, and well-attended breakfasts at the Connaught Hotel.
Then, McAlpine said last week, Sir William Armstrong, at that time head of the Civil Service, found out about the events. He went to the Prime Minister, Edward Heath, and the IRD funding ceased. As a result ELEC had taken over running the breakfast meetings and McAlpine, then as now a fund-raiserextraordinaire, was brought in.
British and American intelligence services had traditionally supported Britain's entry into the European Economic Community us a bulwark against the Communist Eastern bloc. The CIA funded the European Movement, the most prominent extra-governmental group, seeking to influence public opinion for a European Community. Between 1949 and 1953, it was subsidised by the CIA to the tune of £330,000. In June 1970 Edward Heath's Conservative government had been elected with a pro-European manifesto. But public and parliamentary support for Europe was slipping and Britain's entry was in doubt. Although the Cabinet was dominated by pro-Europeans, Heath presided over a party that was deeply ambivalent about the "Common Market".
Later that year, a meeting of senior information officers in Whitehall was convened to discuss what could be done. An official present at that meeting says the only department that seemed capable of achieving something effective was the Foreign Office's Information Research Department. IRD had been set up in 1948 by Christopher Mayhew, then Foreign Minister, to place covert anti-Communist propaganda throughout the world and was funded by the intelligence budget - the secret vote. IRD was closely linked with MI6 and shared many officers - including at one time the double agent Guy Burgess. By the late Sixties, IRD had more than 400 people occupying River-walk House opposite the Tate Gallery and undercover officers in embassies all over the globe.
The civil servant who ran the covert pro-Europe campaign was Norman Reddaway, Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign Office, with a brief covering IRD and other FO information services.
Mr Reddaway, who later became ambassador to Poland, and is now retired, set up a special IRD unit to propagandise in favour of British entry and counter those who opposed it. In an unpublished interview, Mr Reddaway says: "The researchers were extremely good at researching the facts about going into Europe"
The unit worked closely with a number of pro-European politicians to rebut anti-EEC arguments. IRD wrote and brokered articles which were placed in the press "There was no shortage of MPs who were pleased to see something published under their name in The Times and elsewhere," a former insider said.
The separate, breakfast offensive, meanwhile, was organised by the ex-director of publicity for the Conservative Party, Geoffrey Tucker. Mr Tucker had left the position following the Conservatives' victory in 1970 to return to independent public relations, but, as a convinced European, had suggested to Mr Heath that a series of informal meetings should be organised to find ways of ensuring support for entry.
These meetings were to be between "insiders" from the Government and Civil Service (including the negotiators) and "outsiders" (such as media figures and opposition leaders). Tucker set about arranging what would become known as the media breakfasts held in a private room at the Connaught Hotel
Pro-Europeans from all parties were represented. Those from the Labour Party included Roy Jenkins, Roy Hattersley and Gwyn Morgan, the deputy general secretary of the party, now working for the European Commission. Also present was Michael Ivens, director of the Aims of Industry organisation. The breakfasts were usually attended by Norman Reddaway and Ernest Wistrich, director of the British European Movement.
The meetings usually involved 20-30 people. By bringing in figures such as Nigel Ryan. from News at Ten, Ian Trethowen, then managing director of BBC Radio. and Marshall Stewart from the BBC Radio Today programme, the media breakfasts were able to suggest pro-European ideas for television and radio programmes. Tucker allowed the media guests access to the EEC negotiators. "Into the breakfasts came the people from Brussels. so the people who went to the breakfasts from the media got a briefing on what was actually going on day by day. So we were making news," says Tucker. He says News at Ten started a series of five-minute specials on the EEC, with a strong factual tone, as a direct result of the breakfasts.
Nigel Ryan told us: "I certainly met Tucker many times in the period as he was Heath's media man. I cannot specifically remember these media breakfasts in this distance of time, but the ITN special items may have come out of them. These items would have been made with the usual editorial independence that ITN so fiercely guarded."
Marshall Stewart recalls attending a number of the meetings which he says he found useful to gather information "at a time when there was a paucity of facts about the EEC".
Mr Tucker has even claimed that, after pressure from the campaigners, the broadcaster Jack de Manio was removed from his job as a presenter of BBC Radio's Today programme because he was "too anti-European", But Marshall Stewart denies the claim, describing it as "bizarre".
Very few of the participants appear to have been aware of the source of the funding for the breakfasts, although some had their suspicions. Michael Ivens says he suspected that it might have been funded by IRD. "Tucker once told me that Ted [Heath] objected to the cost of the breakfasts." he said. Tucker says he thought they had been funded by the European Movement. Ernest Wistrich says he is unsure where the money came from.
Following withdrawal of IRD support, "the flame was kept alive", according to Tucker, by Geoffrey [later Lord] Rippon and the European League for Economic Co-operation.
After Armstrong prevailed on Edward Heath to cut IRD's secret subsidies, ELEC appointed McAlpine to find funds to keep the pro-Europe media campaign going. "One matter I really do know about is how to organise a good breakfast," McAlpine says. The breakfasts - now in the Dorchester - continued until after the 1975 referendum.
A Discreet Word - Britain's secret propaganda during the Cold War by Paul Lashmar and James Oliver is to be published by Sutton in early 1998
Clarion foot notes

The text above was transcribed by Clarion from a copy of the Sunday Telegraph.
In fact the book that was later published was "Britain's secret propaganda war 1948-1977", Paul Lashmar and James Oliver, Sutton Publishing Limited, 1988
It is instructive to note that McAlpine - mentioned in the article above as "treasurer for a pro-European lobby organisation called the European League for Economic Co-operation" (ELEC) - was later involved with the "Referendum Party" of James Goldsmith. A long newspaper article written by McAlpine himself - "Deal the Tories never honoured", The Times, 7 October 1997, page 15 - includes a photograph of him sitting next to Goldsmith. The caption reads "Sir James with Lord McAlpine of West Green at the Referendum Party conference in 1996". In this article McAlpine purports to give details of telephone conversations and meetings between Goldsmith and the Prime Minister, John Major, concerning the Referendum Party. The introduction to the article is interestingly vague about what qualifies McAlpine to write it: "Former Tory party treasurer turned Referendum Party supporter, Lord McAlpine, on how Sir James Goldsmith thought he had a deal over Europe".
According to a 2000 edition of Debrett's, in addition to treasurer, McAlpine also became (and remained) vice president of ELEC: "Career dir: Newarthill plc, George Weidenfeld Holdings Ltd 1975-83; vice pres Euro League of Econ Cooperation 1975- (treas 1974-5); hon treas Euro Democratic Union 1978-88, Cons and Unionist Pty 1975-90 (dep chm 1979-83); dir: ICA 1972-73, T I Finance Ltd 1981-90 (chm 1985-90);"..."Debrett's People of today", Debrett's Peerage Ltd, 2000, page 1222
Amongst other things, Debrett's also mentions "Liveryman Worshipful Co of Gunmakers". The Referendum Party is not mentioned.
Another glimpse of McAlpine occurs in Diaries, Alan Clark, Orion Books, 1994 where in his entry for 4 January 1991, Clark writes that McAlpine has lent ex-prime minister Thatcher a house. "The tiny little house, lent her by Alistair McAlpine, on College Green, still carries the faintest whiff of Number 10." A footnote says "Lord McAlpine of West Green (Life Peer, 1984). Honorary Treasurer, The Conservative Party, 1975-90." Thatcher and McAlpine are also mentioned by the author Anthony Sampson. Sampson was at a party hosted by Conrad Black to celebrate the election in April 1992. He writes "Mrs Thatcher left to go on to Lord McAlpine's party where her closer supporters were celebrating." page 2, "The Essential Anatomy of Britain", Anthony Sampson, Hodder & Stoughton, 1992
More recently McAlpine also turns up as a member of the "UK Advisory Board" of something called the "The European Foundation", of 28 Broadway, St James's Park, SW1H 9JX. Inside the front cover of its glossy periodical, in a long list of such names, appears "Lord McAlpine of West Green". One of the purported objectives of The European Foundation is "to halt the continuing arrogation of power by the EC/EU". There is also a "Mission Statement", complete with exclamation marks: "YES to European trade! NO to European government!". The European Journal, ISSN 1351-6620, Vol 15 no 2, February/March 2008.

[Magda Hassan]

And locally there are calls for a Royal Commission into the Catholic Church and sex crimes against children. But this of course does not go far enough. Many other institutions have been involved.

Unreported deaths linked to paedophile brotherhood

DateNovember 9, 2012
Rory Callinan

"One of these boys was thrown down a staircase" ... Dr Wayne Chamley alleges in the Broken Rites submission. Photo: Penny Stephens

A GROUP of religious brothers led by an ''alpha paedophile'' are suspected of the unreported bashing deaths of two boys and the sexual abuse of more than 40 wards of the state and others at homes for the mentally impaired over three decades in Victoria, an inquiry into child abuse is expected to be told on Friday.
The 15 suspected paedophile brothers from the Hospitaller Order of St John of God have never been charged in Victoria because of a lack of police resources, said Wayne Chamley, a researcher for the church sex abuse victims group Broken Rites.
While the majority of the suspected paedophiles are dead, Fairfax is aware of three men who have left the order and moved away, but are in roles where they could have access to children.
The allegations relate to the order's operations at Cheltenham and Lilydale where they provided homes for wards of the state, orphans, boys given up by their parents and those with intellectual disabilities from the 1950s to the 1980s.
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In 2002, the order paid more than $3.6 million to 24 men who alleged they were abused as children by brothers from the order. Victorian police at the time confirmed they had launched an investigation into the allegations and had taken statements from a number of victims, and the Director of Public Prosecutions would decide how many of the suspects would be charged.
But Dr Chamley and former victims have confirmed more than a dozen suspected paedophile brothers had never faced charges in Victoria.
Dr Chamley is to read his submission to the Inquiry into the Handling of Child Abuse by Religious and Other Organisations on Friday, which will detail horrific abuse at the order's homes.
This will include allegations boys were subjected to pack rapes and beatings, being drugged and committed to mental institutions where they received electro-shock therapy, and in two extreme cases may have been killed and their deaths not reported.
He will also mention research that out of one group of 69 boys, who went to the order's homes, seven had committed suicide.
On Thursday a spokesman for the order said it acknowledged Broken Rites' work and believed the parliamentary inquiry was the appropriate venue for it to present all its claims. He said the order would make itself available to appear at the inquiry if asked.
The most serious claims Dr Chamley will make are allegations two boys may have died in suspicious circumstances at the order's farm at Lilydale, and two others were committed to a mental institution by the ''alpha paedophile'' brother and given electro-shock therapy, impairing one so badly he was unable to care for himself and later died.
Dr Chamley alleges Broken Rites is aware of two statements made by former inmates who alleged two different boys sustained injuries as a consequence of beatings, with at least one case possibly resulting in death.
''One of these boys was thrown down a staircase (according to a witness) soon after he arrived at Lilydale,'' he alleges in the submission. ''We are also aware of at least two boys who both experienced serial sexual abuse, who were as juveniles certified under the Lunacy Act (1915) and then incarcerated within the Royal Park Asylum.''
The order's spokesman said the Australian provincial of the order, Brother Timothy Graham, was in Portugal and was unable to be contacted for comment.
The spokesman said in 1997 the order first became aware that there had been sexual abuse in facilities it ran in Victoria and immediately opened internal and police inquiries.



Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/unreporte...z2Bmqm35QP

[Jan Klimkowski]

The BBC has been well and truly fucked over.

Investigative journalism is suspended.

BBC in turmoil as Newsnight's Tory abuse story falls apart

Newsnight apologises for implicating Conservative peer and suspends all investigations

Dan Sabbagh, Ben Quinn and Josh Halliday

The Guardian, Saturday 10 November 2012


The BBC said that it was suspending all Newsnight investigations after the programme's accusations that a "leading Conservative" had been involved in child abuse unravelled, with the programme's star witness admitting hours earlier that he had mistaken the peer's identity.

The broadcaster, which is still coping with the fallout from the shelving of a Newsnight investigation into Jimmy Savile, also apologised unreservedly as a senior executive was parachuted in to supervise Friday's edition of the programme, on which the question of its own continuing survival was raised by presenter Eddie Mair.

Steve Hewlett, a Guardian columnist and BBC Radio 4 journalist, also claimed the BBC had investigated Steve Messham, who made the claims about the Tory peer, Lord McAlpine, on at least two separate occasions "and found them wanting".

It also emerged earlier on Friday that the BBC decided it was not appropriate to contact McAlpine, a former treasurer of the Tory party, for a right of reply on Friday of last week because it had no intention of naming him in the Newsnight film. It opted instead to accuse a "leading politician of the Thatcher years" of being involved in child sexual abuse linked to care homes in North Wales.

However, the accuracy of Newsnight's claims collapsed after the Guardian had suggested that McAlpine was a victim of "mistaken identity".

The director general of the BBC, George Entwistle, appointed a senior news executive Fran Unsworth, head of BBC Newsgathering, to supervise Friday night's programme, which carried a full apology.

Referring to its Newsnight programme on 2 November, in which Messham, a former resident of North Wales care homes, appeared and said he had been abused by a political figure, the statement said: "We broadcast Mr Messham's claim but did not identify the individual concerned. Mr Messham has tonight made a statement that makes clear he wrongly identified his abuser and has apologised. We also apologise unreservedly for having broadcast this report."

Entwistle also ordered an immediate suspension of all Newsnight investigations to assess editorial robustness and supervision, a suspension of all co-productions with the Bureau of Investigative Journalism across the BBC, and that Ken MacQuarrie, director of BBC Scotland, will write an urgent report, covering what happened on the investigation into the North Wales children's home scandal.

Friday night's Newsnight was presented by Mair, who normally presents BBC Radio 4's PM, but who has been standing in for more regular anchors such as Jeremy Paxman and Kirsty Wark in recent times. Looking uncomfortable throughout, Mair told viewers: "Obviously we wanted to ask questions of the BBC but no one was available for interview."

However, the most poignant moment came when he was interviewing Rob Wilson, a Tory MP on the Commons culture, media and sport select committee, who momentarily said that he could not hear what he was being asked.

"Oh great. Now not even the sound is working. The journalism is not working," replied Mair, who also later asked Wilson "Is Newsnight toast?"

As well as carrying the recorded comments from Messham and McAlpine's lawyer, the programme included a panel discussion which the BBC press office said had been due to be part of the programme.

On Friday, McAlpine issued a strongly-worded statement saying reports linking him to allegations of abuse at a North Wales children's home were "wholly false and seriously defamatory".

As questions mounted about the veracity of the allegations, Messham admitted he was wrong. Making a public statement of apology, he said he had accused the wrong person: "I want to offer my sincere and humble apologies to him [McAlpine] and his family. After seeing a picture in the past hour of the individual concerned, this is not the person I identified by a photograph presented to me by the police in the early 1990s, who told me the man in the photograph was Lord McAlpine."

Earlier, McAlpine's solicitor said he had "no choice" but to take legal action. Andrew Reid told BBC Radio 4's PM programme: "What I think is so wrong is that Newsnight trailed this and encouraged people that some major revelation would come about and that they were going to name someone.

"Then they took the coward's way out, they ran the programme, then told everyone where to go to find [McAlpine's name in connection with the allegations]. That's creating the defamation."

Newsnight is already under fire for failing to broadcast a previous investigation into child sexual abuse perpetrated by Jimmy Savile with its editor, Peter Rippon, obliged to step aside after making erroneous claims as to why he chose to abort the story.

Against that backdrop, Newsnight's most recent investigation into child sexual abuse was keenly anticipated as providing an opportunity to make amends.

Organised in conjunction with the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, information about Newsnight's film of last week leaked out the day of transmission when Iain Overton, the editor of the bureau tweeted: "If all goes well we've got a Newsnight out tonight about a very senior political figure who is a paedophile."

The bureau's Angus Stickler, a former BBC journalist, had persuaded Newsnight to put out the film he was preparing. Had Newsnight successfully contacted the peer ahead of transmitting the film, it might have been given McAlpine's denials.

Journalist Michael Crick, of Channel 4 News, who became aware of Newsnight's investigation, spoke to the peer twice on 2 November the day of transmission and was told that McAlpine was prepared to sue the BBC, had he been named.

It is understood that the production team at Newsnight had been told in confidence by Messham that McAlpine was the man he was referring to.

The production team, was headed by acting editor Liz Gibbons, and overseen by Adrian van Klaveren, the controller of Radio 5 Live, on secondment to oversee any coverage relating to Savile and child sexual abuse more generally.

Despite the secrecy at the BBC, the name of McAlpine swiftly began circulating on the internet. The peer had previously been linked to allegations of abuse at care homes in North Wales, but several reporters who covered the Waterhouse public inquiry that examined the claims were sceptical of the link.

The Guardian reported that McAlpine was a victim of "mistaken identity" creating the first doubts about the accuracy of the Newsnight investigation. On Friday McAlpine repeated details that he had shared with Crick a week ago, stating that he had only ever visited Wrexham once in his life.

There was also criticism of people who had named McAlpine on Twitter, including the Guardian columnist George Monbiot, who has since apologised. The journalist admitted it was "stupid" of him to have named McAlpine during a week of fevered internet speculation.

[Jan Klimkowski]

The link here is to this morning's interview by BBC Radio 4 of the BBC Director General George Entwhistle.

Entwhistle has so far declined to be interviewed by non-BBC media organisations.

This won't save him though.

His defence is that he's a bumbling, no nothing, fool who has no idea what's going on inside the BBC despite being Editor In Chief.

The original Newsnight report was broadcast on Friday 2 November and had been promoted hours before its broadcast by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. Iain Overton, the editor of the bureau, tweeted that, "all going well", Newsnight would make explosive revelations. "We've got a Newsnight out tonight about a very senior political figure who is a paedophile," he wrote.

This immediately prompted a Twitter row with Newsnight's former political editor Michael Crick who told Overton that the politician had not been contacted about the allegations.

Entwistle also said he was unaware of the Twitter row, or of the newspaper website reports earlier that day flagging up the extraordinary claims about to be made by the BBC.

"This tweet was not brought to my attention, so I found out about this film after it gone out," Entwistle said, to which Humhprys asked: "Nobody even mentioned it?" Entwistle replied. "No. In the light of what's happened, I wish this was referred to me."

Asked when precisely he found out about the film in which Steve Messham, a victim of child abuse in a Welsh care home made the claims, Entwistle said: "I found out about the film the following day." Asked why he had not seen it on Friday night, he replied: "I was out."

Entwistle compounded this apparent lack of awareness of the controversy swirling around the BBC for the past week by saying he only became aware that McAlpine had been wrongly implicated when Messham made his statement withdrawing the claim on Friday afternoon.

An increasingly incredulous Humphrys, who discussed the McAlpine affair on Friday's Today programme following reveletions in the Guardian that McAlpine was the victim of mistaken identity, then asked Entwistle whether or not he read the papers or listened to the corporation's output.

"Did you read the Guardian yesterday morning?" he asked, to which Entwistle replied: "No, John, I was giving a speech yesterday morning."

The admission that he was unaware of the Newsnight investigation until the day after broadcast will further fuel criticism that the BBC director general had shown a lack of interest in the corporation's controversial output. Last month, a parliamentary select committee lamented his "extraordinary lack of curiosity" about a Newsnight investigation into Jimmy Savile last December.

Entwistle on Friday ordered an immediate suspension of all Newsnight investigations to assess editorial robustness and supervision, a suspension of all co-productions with the Bureau of Investigative Journalism across the BBC, and that Ken MacQuarrie, director of BBC Scotland, will write an urgent report, covering what happened on the investigation into the North Wales children's home scandal. But the director general said on Saturday he would not be closing Newsnight down.

It also emerged on Friday that the BBC decided it was not appropriate to contact McAlpine for a right of reply on the Newsnight report because it had no intention of naming him. It opted instead to accuse a "leading politician of the Thatcher years" of being involved in child sexual abuse linked to care homes in north Wales.

Entwistle told BBC Breakfast that Steve Messham made "an inaccurate identification" but stressed he was not blaming him "at all".

He said: "It was our responsibility, Newsnight's responsibility, to make sure that any misidentification did not end up on television and I am afraid we did not manage to do that, therefore we have to absolutely take the blame."

A BBC Trust spokesman said on Saturday: "This is a deeply troubling episode. The Trust notes the BBC executive's apology and would like to offer its own apology also. The Trust has impressed upon the director general the need to get to the bottom of this as a matter of the utmost urgency and will expect appropriate action to be taken as quickly as possible."

The BBC issued an unreserved apology on Friday night after one of the victims spoken to admitted he had wrongly identified Lord McAlpine as the man who had abused him in the 1970s and 1980s.

Entwistle admitted the corporation was facing a "bad crisis" of trust in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal, including a decision to drop a Newsnight investigation exposing the late DJ as a serial child abuser.

Although Newsnight did not name Lord McAlpine, the peer has indicated he now intends to sue the BBC after it led to him being identified on the internet.

Source.

This is the James Murdoch defence, and the criticism is exactly the same.

Either Entwhistle knew and is complicit in journalism which failed to do due diligence and should never have got past the BBC lawyer. Or, as he maintains, he didn't know but he clearly should have done.

Entwhistle is revealed as incompetent and unfit to be DG in either scenario.

This clown is paid as follows according to the BBC:

George's annual substantive salary as Director-General is £450,000 excluding taxable benefits.